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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had become a trap?
(a) The disregard of the way women feel.
(b) The home life.
(c) The lack of personal image in women.
(d) The small-minded image of women.

2. What is the functionalist's primary concern?
(a) None of these.
(b) To grow and achieve more.
(c) To move forward and advance.
(d) To keep things as they are.

3. What weren't these feminists called?
(a) Perverts.
(b) Sex starved.
(c) Spinsters.
(d) Penis enviers.

4. What was Freud most concerned about in regards to society?
(a) He didn't want to change it, but rather to help people adjust to it.
(b) All of these.
(c) He wanted to open the doors for women.
(d) He wanted to help them in the suffrage movement.

5. What did the union member get labeled as?
(a) None of these.
(b) A feminist sympathizer.
(c) An anarchist.
(d) All of these.

6. What requires increased glamorization every year?
(a) The occupation of housewife.
(b) The occupation of motherhood.
(c) The allure of being a wife.
(d) The Feminine Mystique.

7. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?
(a) In their own relationships with those around them.
(b) Within in the confines of wife and motherhood.
(c) Within the walls of their homes.
(d) In their own mind and spirit.

8. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?
(a) How to Get Married Fast!
(b) How To Date.
(c) The Quick Chick.
(d) The Slick Chick.

9. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?
(a) Its use.
(b) Its therapy.
(c) It's practicality.
(d) Its truth.

10. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.
(b) They have nothing to be impassioned about.
(c) They never grow up.
(d) All of these.

11. Why couldn't Betty read a word of the science that had once almost been her life's calling?
(a) She was angry about giving it up.
(b) She had no time for the study following kids.
(c) She had no interest in it.
(d) It was too painful because she had given it up.

12. What was the literature offered telling women to do?
(a) Where their role in society was.
(b) To reproduce and be happy.
(c) That their husbands rule all, and a womans' place is in the house.
(d) To seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.

13. What instrument did men in Bali use?
(a) Xylophones.
(b) Drums.
(c) Their voices.
(d) A flute.

14. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?
(a) Eight hours a day.
(b) As much as twelve hours a day.
(c) As much as ten hours a day.
(d) Nine hours a day.

15. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
(a) All of these.
(b) Give up their femininity in exchange for their humanity.
(c) Give up their humanity in exchange for their femininity.
(d) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?

2. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?

3. What do Freud's writings give more credit?

4. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?

5. Why does mankind not completely live in the present?

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